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| (...) Dear John Torsten has made the outer red rings (with a big flange) on a lathe from plastic material you can buy in any diameters (he used 50mm round material of red PVC). Only to fix these outer rings on the spoked wheels he uses O-rings: You (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Favorite Lego Train?
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| Seems to me, as if we people in good old Europe have a little different view on trains (exept from James Mathis of course). Like Arjen, most of my frieds like the trains from the early 80ies most. I'm of the opinion 1983 was the greatest year for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Favorite Lego Train?
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| (...) Before getting more requests about the thing above: I was talking of the best Lego-Train-Year 1983. And at that time the 7750 was still in the shelfes..... Regards Ben (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Monorails
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| (...) Why shouldn't it be possible? Actually I only know the spirals of Jan, a friend of mine, who built them for 12V track. But they are far to big, to get them on most tables. With an increase of one brick per 16 studs of track, all the 12V (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Blue Electric Track
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| (...) That's right. And all the other explanations given by you are valid too. Thanks. (...) Indeed there have been remote controlled automatic points first. They have been invented in the late 60ies (1969?). (...) It's mainly Torsten Wernecke, who (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What is ahead for the Adventures
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| "Gerry Venteicher" <MRBEAR569@aol.com> wrote in message news:FvCKCI.ILn@lugnet.com... (...) see (...) Well, this was brought up last year on rec.toys.lego and I had mentioned some type of acrtic adventure. Of course, thats been sucked up this year (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: 9v train motors at higher voltage
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| Dear Ben, the Lego®-motors are to small to have a thermal switch. Only the speed regulator has one, to avoid damage on the regulator by short cuts in the curcuit. But you can drive the 9V motor for quite a while with at least 12V, since all Lego® (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Congrats Ben!
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| Thanks to Ben Fleskes for your nice words and of course thanks to all the ones who supported me in my Lego hobby and in the vote into the Lego hall of fame of the builders gallerie! And Ben (the one from PLNTC) in fact your roundhouse was the first (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Urban legends and Sluggy
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| Whoa!! Sorry, I'm *waaaay* behind. I've never seen this site before... I already catched up on a year of comics, only two more to go! <grin> Woohoo... thanks for the link, Sproat! -Shiri <not too much lugnet tonight... gotta see Bun-bun!> (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Urban legends and Sluggy
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| (...) :-D I spent the better part of a week in my office catching up a few months back -- evidently I could be heard hooting occasionally. It must've been the caffeine... (...) It's all I can do to add to add to Pete Abram's ad revenue. He still (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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